Medium red with a palish rim. Complex, soil-inflected aromas of red berries, rose petal, coffee, meat and musky underbrush. In the mouth, fine-grained raspberry, game and savory soil flavors are invigorated by notes of flowers, pepper and spices. Structured but without any hardness, this surprisingly accessible wine finishes with suave, nearly invisible tannins and a strong repeating raspberry flavor. With time in the glass, exotic notes of yellow peach and passion fruit emerged. (ST)

A fruity style, this sports cherry, raspberry and spice aromas and flavors, married to a dense matrix of refined tannins. Fresh and focused, picking up a mineral element on the long finish. (BS)

The 2013 Clos de la Roche from Louis Jadot was also showing a bit lean at the time of my visit, but with impressive nascent complexity. The nose wafts from the glass in a fine blend of black cherries, plums, sous bois, venison, coffee, cedar and a smoky topnote. On the palate the wine is medium-full, pure and suave, with ripe tannins, seemingly low acids, a fairly modest core, but good grip and focus on the fairly long finish. If this puts on more weight during its elevage it will warrant a score at the top of the range.